including ‘Fireball’ and ‘Machine Head,’ which spawned the classic song ‘Smoke on the Water’ in 1972. By the end of the decade, Deep Purple would lose guitarist Ritchie Blackmore ...

We think these classic rock albums are perfect from start to finish, but we'll leave the final verdict up to the fans.

Ritchie Blackmore, best known as the founding member and the lead guitarist of Deep Purple, is standing by his musical taste. While it makes sense that he wouldn’t necessarily like music that ...

The musician is currently on a world tour titled "Glenn Hughes performs Classic Deep Purple Live." As part of this tour, he performed at Moscow’s International House of Music on November 19.